I had to put this Author out there, his name is Randall Robinson, I found out about him wooooo earlier this year through blackelectorate(I love that site) What can I say but read ALL of his books! They are eye opening and extremely insightful. He founded the progressive policy research organization TransAfrica. I just finished reading his book the Debt and I ran through the book featured above An unbroken Agony. For anybody but especially African-Americans, people of African descent they are powerful words that help you understand the world you live in no matter where in the diaspora. Like Levar Burton said(Reading Rainbow, where my 80’s baby at?) ‘You don’t have to take my word for it’…find out for yourselves.
With the DNC(Democratic national convention) kicking off last night, I felt I had to put this out there. I’ve been known about Sen. Barack Obama since his speech on ‘04′ as I was listening to the speech I thought…WOW, who is this guy? In the four years since, we’ve all seen what has happened and now we have the first viable African-American Presidential Nominee in our short history as a nation. As an African-American I am so excited for November to come. I will definitely be at the polls, I pray the outcome is in his favor and that people aren’t mislead, blocked or blinded by the bull$hit of the past two elections. One thing though, if Sen. Obama is to become President I hope he enacts change I can see! I know the first at least two years is going to be straight clean-up. but I don’t want his Presidency to be a physical change but a true change. I would like to see the beginnings of some sort of true ‘universal health care’, definitely a foreign policy change. On my train ride home today, I was talking about this with some of my ‘train buddies’ we were talking about Cuba and the U.S. embargo and how silly(no other word to describe it) it is. I would like to see that embargo lifted, definitely our TROOPS PULLED OUT OF IRAQ!, for Aghanistan to finally be handled in a sensible way and for the goverment to place a focus on it, the type focus the country should have received in the first place. A true, meaningful focus on the continent of Africa! Not just a ‘infomerical charity focus’ but true meaningful focus, for the realization that trade is possible and that as a continent Africa can be a major player in the world. Paying attention to Liberia might not be too much to ask for. We shipped my ancestors over there…so aaahhh yeah. I can go and on, but you all get the point. I’m tired of ‘mindless rhetoric’(if I can get on my CNN pundit ish on a second) We need to hold our elected officials accountable and not just that ‘lord I can’t wait till he get outta office’ If Sen. Obama becomes President there will definitely be cause for celebration but we can’t let that euphoria consume us. January 21, 2009, it’s the real deal! Regardles of who’s in the White House.
I had to combine the two…so If ya don’t know, now ya know…Enjoy Life because these brothers are hilarious!! I found out about them in the earlier part of this year. They go by the name of Green Bench, think Saturday night live meets Mad TV with some HBCU straight up chillin’ on the bench comedy. The writer/director is out of North Carolina A&T, once again BIG UP to my HBCU’S! MEAC fam no doubt. Check them out, trust you all will be scrolling through their youtube catalog because they will have you falling out of your chair.
